JB/072/168/001

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C Of Personal Insults. A Personal Insult defined.

A personal insult is where a man is concerned (A) in doing
or attempting to do any thing to the person of another in the intention
of expressing contempt (B) from towards him or exposing him to
the contempt of others.

Exposition.

[(A) Concerned] See Tit. Of Co-offenders.
[(B) Expressing Contempt.]1. By As by spitting in his face, kicking
him, rolling him in the kennel. There are an infinity of ways of
expressing Contempt for a man: and they are liable to be expressive
of a greater or less degree of contempt according to the
different manners and customs of the people.

2. Every personal Insult is a personal Injury or an attempt
to offer a personal Injury: and in general the less atrocious an
offence is in the character of a simple personal injury, the more atrocious
it is in that of a personal insult: since the slighter the bodily
pain in which you put a man to, the plainer it is that the
end you had in mind was the exposing him to contempt. If for
instance it was by striking him a heavy blow with a Club or an
Iron bar, or by wounding him with a sword or knife, that You
sought

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Identifier: | JB/072/168/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	168	Info in main headings field	of personal insults
Image	001	Titles	exposition / justifications are / punishment / aggravations / excuses are / instructions to the judge
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23785
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